Lights, camera, Chloe!
Posted on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:13 pmMcGill nursing student Chloe Wilde, BSc’11, recently triumphed in a reality show competition to become MuchMusic’s newest on-air personality.
The bilingual globetrotter
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 11:10 amHeidi Hollinger, BA’90, visits the world’s great port cities and shares her adventures with TV viewers in both of Canada’s official languages on Ports d’attache and Waterfront Cities of the World.
Remembering Jack Gelineau
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 6:11 pmJack Gelineau, BCom’49, was once the NHL’s top rookie, but walked away from hockey after only a few seasons. A Redmen alum recounts how he met the former star under surprising circumstances years later.
Good news in the battle for women’s rights
Posted on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 4:06 pmAuthor Sally Armstrong, BEd’66, DLitt’02, has shone a light on the horrors inflicted on women throughout the world. Her new book offers an optimistic update on how women are spurring global change.
Bridging the linguistic divide
Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 11:22 amby Rhonda Mullins, CertTranslation’05 Translating the work of a gifted writer from one language to another is a tricky business. No less an authority than Umberto Eco once summed it up by saying that “translation is the art of a failure.” In a country like Canada, with its much-touted two solitudes, one could argue that [...]
Holding politicians’ feet to the fire
Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 2:55 pmby Sheldon Gordon “This is Power & Politics, and you are where you need to be,” intones Evan Solomon, BA’90, MA’92, each weekday as he welcomes TV viewers to CBC News Network’s two-hour political talkfest from the nation’s capital. As it happens, this is also where Solomon needs to be – at least for now. [...]
The climate change conundrum
Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 10:40 amScientists are in agreement: Climate change is happening and the consequences could be dire. So why aren’t we doing more about it? by Sylvain Comeau When Hurricane Sandy battered the U.S. east coast last fall, many environmentalists were quick to point to the disaster as evidence of global warming. Famed activist David Suzuki called it [...]
New CRTC chair is no pushover
Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 5:54 pmJean-Pierre Blais, BCL’84, LLB’84, the new chair of the CRTC, vows that Canada’s communications companies will be under pressure to prove that their activities serve the public interest.
Jazz-trained Suuns create a sound all their own
Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 3:20 pmTheir CD is earning rave reviews and they’re fresh off an appearance at SXSW. The Suuns (three of its four members studied at McGill) are a band on the rise.
A distinctly happy society
Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 4:17 pmMcGill economist Christopher Barrington-Leigh says Quebecers are among the happiest people in the world. He suspects the province’s Nordic approach to life has a lot to do with it.
